This is the first time that Ye Feng has been banned in his career, and one ban is as many as 15 games, which still has a great impact on an NBA player, and the most important thing is to affect his personal income. www.biquge.info According to NBA rules, when a player gets a technical foul, he needs to pay a $500 fine, $1,000 for ejection from the court, and 1 game suspension with a deduction of 1/90 of his annual salary (82 regular season games + 8 preseason games). In other words, Ye Feng will not get paid for the 15 games he has been banned.

And the NBA also has a rule that players who are suspended cannot enter the game to watch it. If a suspended player shows up during a game, then he faces a $2,000 fine. So in these 15 games, Ye Feng can only watch the live broadcast on TV, whether at home or away, he can't go to the scene to cheer for his teammates, let alone wave a towel or something.

Not being paid and not being able to go to the stadium is a torture for the players, and just thinking about the cycle of life can be very boring. But Ye Feng doesn't think so, the ban is just a ban on participating in the game, not a ban on training, he can continue to participate in the team's training sessions, and he can also train on his own on the day of the game to maintain his condition. His mentality is still very good, and the time of these 15 games is like an extra holiday during the regular season, and he can also take a break when watching the live game in the apartment!

However, McMillan has a headache for his absence, and the team is missing two big players at once, even a historical-level head coach has to think about it, right? Ye Feng has played a very important role in the Trail Blazers' tactical system this season, he can be the initiation point of the offense, he can also be the end point of the offense, and at the same time, he is the team's most reliable defensive gate on the outside. Although Batum has gradually grown up after grinding, it will take more time to reach Ye Feng's level, and his current role is only to open up space, or attract the defense and pass the ball, without Ye Feng's deterrent power at all.

In desperation, McMillan had no choice but to split Ye Feng's work into several parts and assign them to different players. For example, the outside defense will be handed over to Matthews, who replaces Roy as the starter, the offense will be handed over to the team's real starting point guard Miller, and the scoring will be handed over to Batum, so as to barely minimize the impact of Ye Feng's absence. However, the lowest level does not mean that there is no impact, and basically only Miller has completed the task of organizing the offense, and Batum and Matthews are still adapting, and it is difficult to help the team immediately, which makes the tactical operation of the Trail Blazers sluggish.

Actually, there is a reason for this. First of all, let's talk about Matthews, this undrafted pick is the first time to take on the responsibility of a team's outside defense, although he was a stable rotation player for the Jazz last season, but the always cautious Sloan will not assign him to do this kind of thing, and the Jazz also have Kirilyenko, an all-around warrior who has both offense and defense, and Matthews only plays a supporting role when defending on the outside.

But this time he suddenly became the vanguard of the defense of the opposing super scorer, and Matthews needed more time to adapt. What's more, he's only 1.96 meters tall and the standard size of a shooting guard, but he still can't defend small forwards. Ye Feng is different, he has height and speed, he can swing in the second and third positions, and defense is naturally not a problem, Matthews does not have the ability to do this.

As for Batum, although he has grown into a small forward who averages double-doubles in points per game, every time he played last season, he was either in bench time or in place of Roy and Ye Feng together, and whether there is someone around him to attract defense makes a big difference for him. And Batum doesn't have the explosive scoring ability of three or four hundred points like Ye Feng, so it's okay to let him add the icing on the cake, but it's not okay to send charcoal in the snow, which is also a key problem that hinders him from becoming an excellent small forward.

In this case, the Trail Blazers changed their outside-based style of play and put the offensive focus on the inside, to be precise, on Aldridge. In fact, Aldridge and Roy were the cornerstones of the Trail Blazers' revival a long time ago, but later the emergence of Ye Feng made the team play more and more outside, and Aldridge had no use. But in fact, he is still a first-class power forward in the league, and his straight-arm jumper is a must-have in the league, and his offensive means are quite rich. His outstanding performance also reminded everyone that the original Trail Blazers team also has a talented player who is no less talented than Roy and Ye Feng.

But that's about it. Aldridge has exploded his full energy in 15 games, averaging an irreproachable 25.7 points, 12.3 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game, but while he has proven himself to be a great player, he has not been able to prove himself to be a great leader, leading the team to only six of those wins in 15 games, and the team has dropped to fifth place in the West. This means that they have accumulated enough advantages before, and the division between the western groups is quite obvious, otherwise this wave of 6 wins and 9 losses will make them fall to despair.

Ye Feng, who has been paying attention to the team's results, is also very anxious, he knows that this is the result of his impulsiveness, although he always felt that it was the right thing to help Roy to take revenge on Stevenson, but now there is still some remorse in his heart. He was the leader of the team, the man who had to step up when the team was in crisis, and the man who would continue to lead the team to victory in 82 regular season games, but now he could only watch the team lose in front of the TV, and the lost backs of his teammates were both clear and blurred on the screen.

It's a terrible feeling that his teammates are running the pitch and he can only watch the score change in front of the TV, and there is nothing he can do. Although he can rest and train during the ban days, it is not as good as galloping on the field. Now he finally understands why many players are like mourning when they talk about bans, and the feeling of having the intention to kill a thief and not being able to return to heaven can really make a person crazy.

But it doesn't matter, we are not yet halfway through the schedule, the team's ranking is still acceptable compared to last season, and there is still room for improvement. Soon the ban will be over, are you ready for the teams standing across from the Trail Blazers?